{"id":461337,"date":"2026-05-22T06:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/461337\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T06:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:54:11","slug":"two-charged-in-connection-with-death-of-man-in-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/461337\/","title":{"rendered":"Two charged in connection with death of man in Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men have been charged in connection with the death of Nicholas Gordon in east Belfast.<\/p>\n<p>The 51-year-old, who was also known as Nicky, died in hospital on Saturday four days after an assault in an apartment complex on the Holywood Road.<\/p>\n<p>The men, aged 25 and 31, were arrested in Scotland on Monday on suspicion of murder and were transferred to Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>They have been charged with a number of offences including murder, possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence and threats to kill.<\/p>\n<p>Both are due to appear at Belfast Magistrates&#8217; Court tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said: &#8220;As is normal procedure, all charges are reviewed by the PPS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A 24-year-old man and a 49-year-old woman previously arrested on suspicion of aggravated burglary with intent to commit grievous bodily harm in the case were released unconditionally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been charged in connection with the death of Nicholas Gordon in east Belfast. The 51-year-old,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-461337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}